Re: [Caml-list] Two questions on OCamlDoc

[David Teller <David.Teller@univ-orleans.fr>]

And while I'm asking complex questions, can anyone think of a way of
asking OCamlDoc to resolve [string] to [String.t], ['a list] to ['a
List.t], ['a array] to ['a Array.t], etc?

Thanks,
 David

On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 13:47 +0200, David Teller wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
>  I'm currently toying with OCamlDoc, with very little success. I'm
> attempting to do two things:
> * getting OCamlDoc to understand that some modules (which I can modify)
> contain the documentation for some other modules (which I can't) replace
> some modules with others
> * inlining the documentation for modules in modules which import those.
> 
> I need a little help.
> 
> Let me detail this.
> 
> *** Documentation replacement ***
> My project uses modules M_lib1, M_lib2... which come from a variety of
> libraries. For each of these modules, I have created  a module
> M_lib1_with_doc, M_lib2_with_doc, which imports the corresponding
> library module but tailors the documentation to my project. However, for
> technical reasons of mechanical generation, assuming that M_lib1 refers
> to M_lib2, M_lib1_with_doc still refers to M_lib2 instead of referring
> to M_lib2_with_doc. Consequently, when generating the documentation of
> M_lib1_with_doc, ocamldoc doesn't link the generated pages to the
> documentation of M_lib2_with_doc but rather attempts to link it to
> M_lib2 (and fails, as expected).
> 
> Now, I could rework the mechanical generation of my modules and in time,
> I will. However, for the moment, I'm looking for a purely OCamlDoc-based
> solution. I'd like to be able to ask OCamlDoc to please consider every
> reference to M_lib2 as actually meaning a reference to M_lib2_with_doc.
> 
> I have tried to override method [text#html_of_Ref], without much
> success. Is there a simple solution for this?
> 
> *** Inlining modules ***
> I have a few modules whose sole role is to include one or two existing
> modules. By default, when meeting [include], OCamlDoc, ocamldoc only
> generates a link from the container module to the inlined module. In
> this case, I'd rather want the whole documentation of each of these
> modules to be inlined.
> 
> Is that possible?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
>  David
> 
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